Turns out, Montgomery Firefighters are not especially good at starting fires.
They scheduled a training event this morning during which they burned an old shotgun house on Montgomery's West Side, near West Fairview Avenue.
After smoking it up with smoldering hay bales for a while, and giving novice firefighters a chance to go into the smoke filled rooms, they sent in the fire-setter, who tired as best he could to get the place burning. It was a slow-go, finally using the fan normally used to expel smoke from a building, to instead blow oxygen in to get the fire going. Eventually it worked, but these guys are no Fahrenheit 451 types...they do a much better job (thank God!) putting them out. Some photos and a touch of video:
They scheduled a training event this morning during which they burned an old shotgun house on Montgomery's West Side, near West Fairview Avenue.
After smoking it up with smoldering hay bales for a while, and giving novice firefighters a chance to go into the smoke filled rooms, they sent in the fire-setter, who tired as best he could to get the place burning. It was a slow-go, finally using the fan normally used to expel smoke from a building, to instead blow oxygen in to get the fire going. Eventually it worked, but these guys are no Fahrenheit 451 types...they do a much better job (thank God!) putting them out. Some photos and a touch of video:
How come the firefighters are allowed to practice on nekked mannequins, but we aren't even allowed to buy wine with a picture of a nekkid lady on a bicycle on the label?
ReplyDeleteWhich reminds me, Jay, of the time there was a move to put SOMETHING on that neked Vulcan statue in Birmingham. I say we demand the dummy put on some clothes!
ReplyDeleteHeard about that, too.
ReplyDeleteSome years ago I took an out-of-state woman around DC. We went into Union Station, and she peered up at the statues of Roman soldiers that line the large hall.
I was wondering why she was so interested. She said that someone had told her that the reason some of the statues had the soldiers holding their shields in front of them was . . . well . . . you get the idea.